ADDIS ABABA– The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched a 70 million USD Feed the Future Ethiopia Community Nutrition Activity.
USAID Mission Director Scott Hocklander and former Health Minister Lia Tadesse (MD) launched the project last Monday.
In his opening remark, Hocklander said the project aligns with the U.S. government’s sustained, comprehensive investments in health, agriculture, WASH, education, and other sectors to address high malnutrition situation in Ethiopia.
The director also stated that the community nutrition activity focuses on women, children, and adolescent girls throughout the stages of their lives, from birth, through school, to becoming a mother and grandmother. “This is how to break the intergenerational cycle of malnutrition.”
Moreover, the community nutrition activity provides nutritional support in humanitarian emergencies by re-establishing routine services and interventions. Women and children will receive essential nutritional support during an emergency and once the situation improves, they continue to get services from the health facilities and extension workers, he elaborated.
The Community Nutrition Activity will be implemented by Family Health International 360 and its consortium partners in more than 155 districts of Afar, Amhara, Central Ethiopia, Oromia, Sidama, Somali, Southwest Ethiopia, South Ethiopia, and Tigray states as well as Dire Dawa city.
Ethiopia and the U.S. have 120 years-long diplomatic relations and they are partnered in health, education, agriculture, food security, science and the environment, and many other areas to improve the lives of all Ethiopians.
BY MISGANAW ASNAKE
THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD THURSDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2024
